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Belle and Astra piece progress pics!
🕑 Added 2025-02-08 14:41:19 +0000 UTCHere's the screenshots I took during the process of making this piece! I wanted to try to draw them dancing in that field of flowers like in the MV and as always I try to convey a feeling more than anything else. In this case I wanted something both serendipitous and intimate but still almost like the feeling of being on an empty stage. I settled on a wide pose with parallel but converging line of actions from both Belle and Astra and played with the angle to try and make the back ground feel close to a fish eye lens shot. I hope this helped convey movement and focus! (•̀ᴗ•́ )و
As always I tend to edit as I go along and you can see that namely in Astra's face per pic as I changed the emotion from what started out as more sensual, to something more innocent and joyful hopefully to match the growing more whimsical feeling this piece was falling into.
From there it was rather simple to color and render but ohmygod there where a lot of consistency errors and lack of detail shots in that MV (no judgement, animation is really hard) so I kind of had to choose certain frames to reference and then fill in the gaps when the detail was lacking.;;; Like how there where no close up shots of Belle's shoes so I just had to guess and then when I was nearly done I saw what looked like lacing in just a handful of frames and had to make an executive decision to love myself and not go back and add that when I was nearly done lmao.
I hope you all are keeping well and safe! Thank you for your support and your patience and I hope this insight is either interesting or helpful to both my fellow artists and to my non-artists! (ෆ˙ᵕ˙ෆ)♡
Comments
Djingo Djang0
Thank you so much I'm glad this insight is something you enjoy!! I'll make sure to do this more often with my future pieces! ٩(^ᗜ^ )و ´-
Nost
I am not an artist, but I still love the insight into your process! I especially like the conjunction of the screenshots alongside your thoughts at the time and would look forward to more in the future. It's interesting to see where your head was at! The fish eye effect on the environment in particular was an inspired decision and creates a dreamy romantic effect, as if the moment was almost too perfect, like something out of fiction. I think Belle would feel completely swept off her feet ^_^
